\usepackage{fancyvrb,newverbs}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=1.5cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}

% change background color for inline code in
% markdown files. The following code does not work well for
% long text as the text will exceed the page boundary
\definecolor{bgcolor}{HTML}{E0E0E0}
\let\oldtexttt\texttt
\let\oldverbatim\verbatim

\renewcommand{\texttt}[1]{
  \colorbox{bgcolor}{\oldtexttt{#1}}
}

%% color and other settings for hyperref package
% \hypersetup{
%     bookmarksopen=true,
%     linkcolor=blue,
%     filecolor=magenta,
%     urlcolor=RoyalBlue,
% }
